Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology

Mapping Keats’s Progress
A Critical Chronology

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References to this poem

To Mrs. Reynolds’s Cat

Cat! who hast past thy grand climacteric,
How many mice and rats hast in thy days
Destroy’d? — how many tit bits stolen? Gaze
With those bright languid segments green and prick
Those velvet ears — but pr’ythee do not stick
Thy latent talons in me — and upraise
Thy gentle mew — and tell me all thy frays
Of fish and mice and rats and tender chick.
Nay, look not down, nor lick thy dainty wrists —
For all the wheezy asthma — and for all
Thy tail’s tip is nicked off — and though the fists
Of many a maid have given thee many a maul,
Still is that fur as soft as when the lists
In youth thou enter’dst on glass bottled wall.

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MLA Style: Works Cited

Keats, John. “To Mrs. Reynolds’s Cat.” Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology, by G. Kim Blank. Edition 3.28 , University of Victoria, 24 September 2026. https://johnkeats.uvic.ca/poem_to_mrs_reynoldss_cat.html.

Chicago Style: Note

John Keats, “To Mrs. Reynolds’s Cat,” Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology, Edition 3.28 , last modified 24th September 2026. https://johnkeats.uvic.ca/poem_to_mrs_reynoldss_cat.html.

Chicago Style: Bibliography

Keats, John. “To Mrs. Reynolds’s Cat.” Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology, Edition 3.28 , last modified 24th September 2026. https://johnkeats.uvic.ca/poem_to_mrs_reynoldss_cat.html.